"..the Sony ICD-UX80.."
A much better choice, as that records in MP3 format, and - as
Sony's site says - "..Simple drag & drop file transfer to PC without any PC software. Windows and Macintosh compatible..."
You'd probably need to get a decent mic to plug into it, though, especially if you're doing weddings, as anything further away from it than, say, 8 feet may sound a little indistinct. A reasonable "shotgun" mic should do the job.
I use an (obsolete) teeny Sony postage-stamp-size digital tape machine - can't find a picture of it on the web, sorry - or a DAT recorder..
..or mini-disc recorder to record "wild" sound at weddings ..choir singing, or wedding vows, etc.. which I can edit into the final mix.
For overall "ambience" audio I use a small Vivanco stereo tie-clip mic, sitting somewhere near the rear of the church/synagogue/temple/whatever to get the sound of everyone/choir/organist making music (..the Vivanco has astonishingly good bass and overall "feel"..) and for wedding vows I use a gun mic attached to the recorder, to get "close up" audio of the bride and groom several feet away.
(..Ah; found a picture of it:
not to the same scale as the DAT recorder, above!..
..here on the page of the
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics!.. it gives truly impressive audio, like a 7.5 inches-per-sec stereo tape machine, but runs off a 1.5v AA cell, with tapes just a bit bigger than your thumbnail..)
